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<H2>property</H2>
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Attach a "property" (string key and value pair) to the edit cell
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<H3>Usage:</H3>
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      <B>property</B> [<I>key</I> [<I>value</I>]] <BR><BR>
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         where <I>key</I> and <I>value</I> are any text strings.
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<H3>Summary:</H3>
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      The <B>property</B> command implements a general-purpose method
      of attaching information to a cell definition.  Except for a
      few properties known to the <B>lef</B> and <B>gds</B> commands
      (q.v.), properties have no inherent meaning to magic but may be
      used with other programs or scripts to add additional information
      about a cell definition. <P>

      With no arguments, all properties of the current edit cell are
      listed.  With only the <I>key</I> argument, the value associated
      with the key is returned.  With both arguments, the string
      <I>value</I> is associated with the string <I>key</I> as a
      property of the cell.  If <I>key</I> is an existing key, then
      its original value will be overwritten.
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<H3>Implementation Notes:</H3>
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      <B>property</B> is implemented as a built-in command in <B>magic</B>.
      The property structure itself is implemented as a hash table in
      the cell definition structure.
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